The beginning
Our story begins with a group of friends and a stroke of luck - or was it fate? In 2014, these whiskey lovers and story seekers, discovered a vast warehouse complex, concealed by a forgotten 300 year old Palladian house in Hazelwood forest, Co. Sligo.
The very land that had inspired W.B. Yeats’ poem, The Song of Wandering Aengus was to inspire another story. And the founders embarked on a journey to transform this land and its buildings into a world class single malt distillery and maturation facility. The Athrú story is just beginning; come and join us on our journey…
the Perfect Place
Picture-perfect scenery of Co. Sligo’s majestic mountains, rolling fields and rugged coastlines form the backdrop to the Lough Gill Distillery.
Immortalised in poetry and famed for its scenery, surfing and warm hospitality, we’ve often wished we could take those elements and bottle them. And maybe, just maybe, we can...
History, Folklore & Mythology
The very foundations which now form our distillery hold hundreds of years of history and the legacy of the families who lived here. But, it’s not just the three hundred years of the Wynne family’s tenure at Hazelwood estate captured here. It’s perhaps little wonder that the land is the inspiration for much Irish folklore and mythology, when these grounds hold many secrets; those of iron age burial grounds and megalithic complexes.
Our Single Malts
Our distillery team has a single obsession each day: the finest Irish single malt whiskey.
We use only the highest quality ingredients in our whiskey, sourcing heritage barley from a small group of Irish growers and drawing water from an ice age aquifer running beneath Lough Gill. Our whiskey is triple distilled in the Irish tradition and carefully 'cut' to produce a spirit with a distinctive fruity flavour and velvety mouthfeel.
Change or transformation
Athrú (pronounced Ah Roo) is an Irish word, meaning change or transform, and it’s a word that embodies what we do here at the Lough Gill Distillery.
Inspired by these transformations that see us continue to evolve, from turning simple grains to the finest Irish single malt whiskey, and noting the transformative journey our distillery’s grounds have been on, we chose Athrú as the name for our brand.